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Hands-On Visio: Designing Effective Visual Solutions
Course: 194
Type: Hands-On Training
Duration: 2 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Create professional diagrams for a wide range of applications with Visio
- Apply the built-in features of Visio, such as stencils, templates and connectors
- Develop diagrams to illustrate enterprise structure, workflow and scheduling
- Design detailed technical drawings for architectural and Information Technology purposes
- Link Visio diagrams to relational databases
- Integrate Visio with the Web to map Web sites and create Web page images
Course Benefits Microsoft Visio allows you to easily create a broad range of business and technical diagrams applicable to any organization. In this course, you learn to use the Visio built-in templates and stencils to create sophisticated diagrams. You also learn how to incorporate Visio diagrams in Microsoft Office applications, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.Who Should Attend Individuals who want to create diagrams and present data that has a professional look and feel. Those who need to integrate Visio with other applications to automate the creation and maintenance of diagrams will find this course especially useful. Familiarity with Microsoft Office is helpful.Hands-On Training You gain experience through extensive hands-on exercises and an evolving case study. Exercises include:
- Drawing with basic tools and creating custom stencils
- Importing Excel data to create organization charts
- Creating flowcharts with intelligent routing
- Building a time line using Microsoft Project data
- Embedding and linking diagrams in MS Office documents
- Creating layered architectural diagrams
- Connecting Visio to a database to illustrate its structure
- Linking Visio shapes to database records
- Mapping Web site structure
Course 194 Content
- The strengths of Visio
- The role of Visio in the Microsoft Office suite
- Visio terminology
- Rectangle
- Ellipse
- Line
- Arc
- Freeform
- Pencil
- Resizing and rotating shapes
- Aligning and distributing shapes
- Distinguishing between closed and open shapes
- Panning and zooming
- Viewing diagram details with multiple windows
- Maximizing reuse of drawing elements
- Creating customized shapes, stencils and templates
- Previewing built-in templates using the Diagram Gallery
- Adding and formatting diagram text
- Moving text with the Text Block tool
- Applying intelligent routing between shapes
- Connection strategies: point-to-point or shape-to-shape
- Illustrating enterprise hierarchies with organization charts
- Automating diagram creation with the Organization Chart Wizard
- Identifying flowchart shapes and their meanings
- Capturing sequences of tasks and decisions with flowcharts
- Importing schedule information from Microsoft Project
- Preparing project time lines for use in presentations
- Linking to diagrams to enable active sharing
- Embedding diagrams to preserve their current state
- Inserting subsections of a diagram
- Configuring Visio for scaled drawings
- Mapping out office and home floor plans
- Distributing shapes across layers
- Protecting shapes by locking layers
- UML
- Windows XP User Interface
- Network diagrams
- The importance of database schema
- Reverse-engineering diagrams with the Database Wizard
- Locating shape data in ShapeSheets
- Generating reports
- Mapping ShapeSheet entries to database fields using the Database Wizard
- Modifying the database from a drawing
- Saving diagrams in multiple formats
- Static image format (GIF, JPEG, PNG)
- Deploying Visio Viewer plugin with Internet Explorer
- Mapping a complete Web site into Visio
- Identifying faults in Web sites
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